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LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (ap IEUAN LYDAN according to Pen. MS. 112), ( fl. c. 1480 ), poet . A number of his poems remain in MSS., including an elegy composed to his son Gruffudd , ‘begging’ poems requesting a dog, some goats, and spectacles, a satire or lampoon addressed to the dean of Bangor (who had instructed Huw Lewis , Y Chwaen , to imprison the poet , rather than allow him to make a ‘begging’ journey or cymortha in Bodeon and Aberdaron ), and another satire to dean Richard Kyffin , Rhys Pennardd , Hywel ap Rheinallt , and Lewis Môn . Ymrysonau , or bardic controversies, occurred between him and the following poets : D. Llwyd of Mathafarn , Guto'r Glyn , Lewys Môn , and Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd .

Bibliography:

Jones and Lewis , Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau , and , 1928 ;
Brogyntyn MSS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1, 2, 4, 6;
Cwrtmawr Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 129, 200, 243, 244;
Esgair Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 10, 12;

Glyn Davies Manuscript at the National Library of Wales 2;

Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 25;

National Library of Wales Manuscripts 255, 552, 644, 727, 834, 3288, 5269, 5272;

Sotheby Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth C. 2;

Wynnstay Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 2;

Henry Lewis , ‘Ymrysonau Dafydd Llwyd a Llywelyn ap Gutun,’ in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies , iv;

‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27 vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77 ;

J. Davies , Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex , 1632 ;

Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen , 1852 ;

W. J. Gruffydd , Llenyddiaeth Cymru o 1450 hyd 1600 , 1922 , 1450-1600 , 40;

Ifor Williams , and J. Llywelyn Williams , Gwaith Guto'r Glyn , and (ed.): , 1939 .

Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni .